Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom

:laughing: Gold! For some reason I suspect you were that unsung hero…

As long as we’re not dealing with Odorama.

Smell-o-Vision was a Real Thing, long predating Odorama. It was a system for releasing scents into the theater, used only once for the 1960 film Scent of Mystery

Odorama was over twenty years later – the scratch and sniff cards used for John Waters’ Polyester

There’s actually a long history of people trying to link scents with movies, both before 1960 and after 1981. When I visited the Journey into Imagination attraction at Disney World, they had the purple dragon Figment visit each sense in turn, including “Smell”

Nope; as noted by @digs, that was Margaret Hamilton, who did star in a series of ads for Maxwell House, as “Cora,” in the 1970s.

Madge was played by Jan Miner, who had a long career as an actress on radio, stage, and TV; she played Madge in TV and print ads from 1966 until 1992.

I don’t want anyone to forget Josephine the plumber.
https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1Tcwz0mrSDFg9BLNyi9OLcjIzEtVKMlIVSjIKc1NSi0CAL_xC8E&q=josephine+the+plumber&rlz=1CAPPDO_enUS1056&oq=&aqs=chrome.0.46i39i362j35i39i362l7.11671370j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:752e8849,vid:NEDB-4dEY5M,st:0

Is that Robbie Benson?

See Kornbluth and Pohl’s “The Space Merchants” for how low advertising can go (except it goes even lower in the sequel “The Merchants’ War”).

For low advertising, it’s hard to beat Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. A commercial for tongue scrapers was so disgusting that it prompted viewers to turn off their televisions, but also so compelling that people bought tongue scrapers in droves. That led to more companies making tongue scrapers, and ever more disgusting commercials, and destroyed television as we know it.

Sounds like a fine idea to me.

At least Madge the Manicurist didn’t unzip her pants before saying “You’re soaking in it”.

Jane Withers was quite a talented child actor. Too bad she usually had to play the “bad guy” character.

I loved Cuckoo’s Nest and TVs Taxi, but those Jersey Mike’s commercials have me sick and fucking tired of Danny Devito. Get off my fucking TV.

I like DeVito … I hate him in those creepy commercials.

Saw an ad on the evening news last night for an electric razor to shave one’s crotch (or one’s “boys”, as the ad put it). Good grief. Can’t imagine having to explain that one to one’s young children.

No comment.

Standard beard trimmers can shave several sorts of beards found on both men & women. They even have attachments to ensure an even and bloodless trim.

Not news.

No shit. But seeing it in prime time with one’s kids around would not be my idea of fun, which is my point.

Have you seen the one were the “boys” are actually bearded little boys. Standing in front of the guy at a wedding. 2 for each man.
Disgusting.

I couldn’t hear it because there seems to be something wrong with my speakers. I watched the video of that commercial and I laughed. I thought, visually anyway, it was hilarious. I know I shouldn’t but I did.

It would have been funnier if they shaved the pussycat.